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RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
- From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- To: "'Bleyer, Michael'" <MBleyer at DEFiNiENS dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:29:56 +0100
- Subject: RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bleyer, Michael [mailto:MBleyer@DEFiNiENS.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
>
>
>
> I am logged in as user "jdoe" and have administrator rights
> on a WinNT box.
> I installed the most recent stable cygwin on this box (logged
> in as user
> "jdoe"), usable for "all".
>
> However, the cygwin shell tells me:
> ~ $ whoami
> Administrator
>
> and gives me the following environment variable settings:
> USER=Administrator
> USERNAME=jdoe
If you are on NT and logged in as Domain user (not a local user) this may be
related to the /etc/passwd setting. As already discussed on this list you
get strange results when logged in as a Domain user if you keep th enormal
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files as created initially by Cygwin.
You *must* in this case be sure you have an entry for your user/group in the
proper files. For that there is two solutions:
1) You have a relatively small NT Domain (less than a thousand user perhaps)
and you can simply do:
$ mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd
$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group
This will last for a minute or so (for about 100 entries it takes less than
10 seconds) and you should be up and running.
2) You have a *huge* NT Domain; then just create the entries needed in
/etc/passwd (/etc/group should be sufficiently small to be created
normally):
$ mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group
$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
$ mkpasswd -u jdoe -d >> /etc/passwd
>
> and consequently:
> ~ $ pwd
> /home/Administrator
>
Here you should then get your normal NT home (%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%)
>
> Obviously cygwin logs me in as "Administrator" instead of "jdoe", even
> though I logged in as user jdoe under WinNT
> (USERNAME=jdoe in a DOS box).
> Is there a way to change/avoid this? I tried installing
> cygwin as "usable
> only for me" but it's just the same.
> I've tried the registry, FAQ and mailing list archives to no avail.
>
> A problem arises when I use cvs for example, as it gets my
> username from the
> env variable USER and all my files get checked in from user
> "Administrator"
> as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but
> maybe there is
> a simpler solution?
>
> Thanks for any help,
You're welcome
Bernard
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
b.dautrevaux@usa.net
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